On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 05:34 +0100, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > Steve Hall wrote: > > Has anyone here experienced font errors in gVim lately related to > > the system font "Fixedsys"? I have three separate users with > > relatively new Windows installations that get an error with: > > > > set background=light > > > > E235: Unknown font: Fixedsys:h9:cDEFAULT > > > > I see this font name hardcoded in os_mswin.c, just wondering if > > perhaps MICROS~1 has recently changed XP to not included it by > > default in some situations? > > Possibility I: > Try taking advantage of the fact that the gvim 'guifont' option is > supposed to accept a comma-separated list. [...] > > Possibility II: > Fixedsys is a bitmapped font, not a scalable font. Maybe it supports > 8pt or 10pt but not 9pt. [...]
Neither of these actually solve the bug, they are methods whereby a script writer (myself) can hunt-and-peck on some third party system (the user) trying to hide an issue hard-coded into Vim. (That is, if Windows XP installations have recently changed, which is my essential question. If it hasn't, this is a user problem in the first place; otherwise, it's a bug in Vim.) -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
